Iran MPs demand changes in “nuclear doctrine”

News Agency quoted Rasoul Sanaei Rad, a political affairs adviser in Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s office, as saying: “Some (Iranian) politicians raised the possibility of changing nuclear strategic policies, as it will have an impact on to hit the country’s energy centers on the equations during and after the war.”

Sanai believed that Israel’s targeting of nuclear facilities would be “a blow to regional and international red lines.”

On October 1, Iran launched about 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, in an attack that Tehran said was in retaliation for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Hamas movement, in a bombing targeting him in Tehran that Israel accused of he behind him. , as well as Israel’s assassination of Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer in an attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs.

After this Iranian missile bombing, the second of its kind in less than six months, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant promised to launch a “deadly, precise and stunning” attack against Iran.

In April, Iran launched, for the first time in its history, a direct military attack on Israel in response to an air strike that destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, and Tehran held responsibility for the Jewish state.

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Iran’s nuclear deterrent

On Wednesday, Iranian representatives called for Tehran to have nuclear weapons, as Representative Hassan Ali Khalqi Amiri said, “International organizations, European countries, or America cannot control Israel, which to commit crimes as they wish,” while his colleague Mohammad Reza Sabbaghian opined. “Iran possesses atomic weapons. This is the way to achieve nuclear deterrence,” said Agence France-Presse.

Kamal Kharazi, Khamenei’s adviser, said Iran could “reconsider its nuclear doctrine if Israel wanted to threaten Iran with nuclear weapons.” “

According to local media, a draft law aimed at “expanding the nuclear industry” was presented to Parliament, without further details.

Red line

After the recent Israeli threats, US President Joe Biden warned his friend against any attempt to target Iran’s nuclear facilities, stressing that he rejected any strikes on oil facilities.

Tehran stressed that attacking its infrastructure would prompt a “stronger response,” and an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official warned that any strike on nuclear sites or energy facilities would be crossing a “red line.”

According to Agence France-Presse, an Iranian political analyst, Maziar Khosravi, said the delegates’ message was “rather a strong message directed at Israel’s supporters in the West” to “try to influence it”.

The decision to change the nuclear doctrine is still in the hands of the Director and not the representatives, according to Khosravi, who believes that no change is likely in the short term.

But Khosravi believes that “if Israel attacks the nuclear facilities, Iran will likely withdraw from the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”

Iran has repeatedly said it does not want to have an atomic bomb, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called at the UN General Assembly in September for “a world without nuclear weapons and a Middle East without all weapons.” destruction.”

Pezeshkian also confirmed in an interview with the American CNN news network that “Iran is not trying to have a nuclear bomb.

Pezeshkian, who has been in power since last July, is trying to revive the nuclear deal that ended in 2015 with the goal of US sanctions that burden the economy Reduce Iran.

This deal was supposed to provide a framework for Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions imposed on it, but it collapsed after America unilaterally withdrew from it. – the death of former Republican President Donald Trump in 2018.

Since the failure of the deal, Iran’s nuclear program has seen significant progress, according to many reports.

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Fars News Agency quoted Rasoul Sanaei Rad, a political affairs adviser in Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s office, as saying: “Some (Iranian) politicians raised the possibility of changing nuclear strategic policies, as it will have an impact on to hit the country’s energy centers on the equations during and after the war.”

Sanai believed that Israel’s targeting of nuclear facilities would be “a blow to regional and international red lines.”

On October 1, Iran launched about 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, in an attack that Tehran said was in retaliation for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Hamas movement, in a bombing targeting him in Tehran that Israel accused of he behind him. , as well as Israel’s assassination of Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer in an attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs.

After this Iranian missile bombing, the second of its kind in less than six months, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant promised to launch a “deadly, precise and stunning” attack against Iran.

In April, Iran launched, for the first time in its history, a direct military attack on Israel in response to an air strike that destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, and Tehran held responsibility for the Jewish state.

Iran’s nuclear deterrent

On Wednesday, Iranian representatives called for Tehran to have nuclear weapons, as Representative Hassan Ali Khalqi Amiri said, “International organizations, European countries, or America cannot control Israel, which to commit crimes as they wish,” while his colleague Mohammad Reza Sabbaghian opined. “Iran possesses atomic weapons. This is the way to achieve nuclear deterrence,” said Agence France-Presse.

Kamal Kharazi, Khamenei’s adviser, said that Iran could “reconsider its nuclear doctrine if Israel wanted to threaten Iran with nuclear weapons.” “

According to local media, a draft law was presented to Parliament aimed at “expanding the nuclear industry,” without further details.

Red line

After the recent Israeli threats, US President Joe Biden warned his friend against any attempt to target Iran’s nuclear facilities, stressing that he rejected any strikes on oil facilities.

Tehran stressed that an attack on its infrastructure would prompt a “stronger response,” and an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official warned that any strike on nuclear sites or energy facilities would be crossing a “red line.”

According to Agence France-Presse, an Iranian political analyst, Maziar Khosravi, said the delegates’ message was “rather a strong message directed at Israel’s supporters in the West” to “try to influence it”.

The decision to change the nuclear doctrine is still in the hands of the Director and not the representatives, according to Khosravi, who believes that no change is likely in the short term.

But Khosravi believes that “if Israel attacks the nuclear facilities, Iran will likely withdraw from the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”

Iran has repeatedly said it does not want to have an atomic bomb, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called at the UN General Assembly in September for “a world without nuclear weapons and a Middle East without all weapons.” destruction.”

Pezeshkian also confirmed in an interview with the American CNN news network that “Iran is not trying to have a nuclear bomb.

Pezeshkian, who has been in power since last July, is trying to revive the nuclear deal that ended in 2015 with the goal of US sanctions that burden the economy Reduce Iran.

This agreement was supposed to provide a framework for Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions imposed on it, but it collapsed after the unilateral American withdrawal. by former Republican President Donald Trump’s decision in 2018.

Since the failure of the deal, Iran’s nuclear program has seen significant progress, according to many reports.